Polaroid Saint

If you get a puppy, then you are gonna need to take holiday (a lot of holiday) to train it. And although the same could be true of any rescue dog, you could look around and find an elder dog that is already house trained and needs a home. They are loads out there on the web. People will rightly tell you about breed characteristics and this is especially important when it come to health, but when it come to behaviour it is all down to training! SO, you COULD get a Jack Russel that is actually chilled out or a really selfish lab etc etc etc. ten hours IS a long time for any dog, so entertainment, access to the garden, at the very least a visitor during the day will be paramount. Probably your best bet if the dog is gonna be left alone for long periods of time is to go for an ex-racing grey hound. Thousands come to the end of their 'useful' life every year and go into rescue. They are loving, loyal (after all, you'll be the first human to show it attention) a little bit daft (like a dog should be) and they sleep all the bloody time!

I like the idea that buying a ticket and then not attending that game (i.e failing to support the team), just to secure purchasing rights to another game somehow makes you a better fan. buying up tickets to games you cannot attend just seams wrong to me, and not unremoved from the FAs own daft allocation system. still, nevermind eh? I have been to 9 home games and three away this season. not bad considering I have to play footy myself on saturdays. I have been on the database since before the world wide web was invented, yet I was still too late to get a ticket - the allocation sold out before general sale remember, tough on me, but I don't need to read comments from smug scummers. Supporting the team means supporting each other.

It's also worth remembering that technology (coupled with a massive social shift in private spending) opened the door for BSkyB and the Premier League back in the early nineties. Football and Satellite TV were fine bedfellows for each other and remained so for many years. The money kept on rolling. It is only now that technology will play it's hand again. Technology will force Sky into a more open market where - thanks in part to the massive popularity of the English game world wide - other providers will compete. Whilst there is a strong chance that in a upward economy this could generate more money for the clubs through competitive bidding, I believe it will actually result in a reduced spend overall in favour of better rights/security in an uncertain fiscal future. Skyplayer is already showing how Sky will offer coverage, whilst anyone a little bit internet-savvy (with a good fast connection) can find any and every premiership game streamed live online somewhere. HD obviously keeps us glued to our TVs for now, but even HD will be obtainable online very shortly. 3D is - currently - a bit of an embarrassment (all the tech company CEOs wetting themselves over what is a very dull technology, whilst RnD departments in all the major nervously fiddle about with silly specs).

I believe this to be the case. The spending is consistent with everything that has been said and done so far. ML has agreed with NC to craft a decent football side, with a sensible, sustainable structure supported by a large and eager fan base. That is the five year plan. NOT some dream Prem ticket and Sky Cash; I very much doubt there will be anywhere near the windfall there is at the moment. The bottom is falling out of the Prem football at the moment and it's gonna take it lot to stop it crashing - let alone sustain it as it is for five years. Saints will thus soon be ideally placed (thanks to fans base/structure/facilities) to lead the bright new dawn of British football. The (ahem) 'superclubs' will enter some mad-arsed europaleague and those clubs without debt, and with good fan bases, will rise up and compete. Those feigning their status and over spending (at whatever level) will sadly have to sink and regroup as other clubs have had to do.

oldknow was a sh!t-stirrer, cortese is a sh!t-kicker... ...the former is negative and reactionary, the later is progressive and proactive.

I concur; that's mushroom talk right there. such detailed lunacy!

James McArthur would be an excellent addition to our squad, good shout SuperMikey.

I sat next to an empty Chapel; which I felt was a very clever comment on our new secular society at Christmas time, was it not? It also helped to make that end of the stadium about as exciting as the game itself.

The coverage on ITV is Abysmal. Shocking. It constantly and continuely surprises me they are allowed to put that sh!te out. No proper analysis, awful awful editing, no insight and hardly anytime spent on the actual games themselves. The policy to have quick clips and a spoken 'review' of each game means you see nothing and know what the result was before you see any action (eg; as "Saints made hard work of beating Luton...." before any clip of the game is shown - which, incidentally, was three seconds of Lambert's free kick, four seconds of the players hugging afterwards plus the Luton miss. Nice editing ITV.). The 'experts' are particularly poor, even for football pundits, with the worst vocabulary and least compreshensible delivery of anyone on TV. The thing should be held up as the very antithesis of decent public broadcasting and ITV should simply not be allowed to get away with it. My partner and I produce print media and we spend a lot of time, working with educated and experienced editors, to make sure every t is crossed, every appostrophy is right and every comment is salient and important. This might be for a magazine that reaches, say, as little as 30k people. And then you see this joke of a programme on TV, destined to be watched by millions. Makes me sick. We are football? No, You are C*nts.

I think I might use this analogy in future! (In my sometime IT Tech capacity I advise adult male IT users to have at least a couple of different browsers installed on their PC - one for Pr0n and the other for the missus to use. w&nky face smilie - sorry, I mean winky face smilie)

Amazing! How guilty do I feel after not being on here for a couple of weeks! ?! (been VERY busy, honestly chaps!). Truth is, I haven't wanted to jinx our current good form by coming on here and being all 'positive' n that. Not that I am as superstitious as the next Saint, but actually I am. Wow. Seriously. What great news. Jeff Stelling signing a Saint shirt? I hope he has just signed it and not written something 'witty' on the back!? For now, Polaroid Out!

No-one knows WHO that is! And - more bizarrely - no-one seems to care!

All the others in the list have their company wealth and assets added together to create their totals. So that's not it...

That's odd innit? Maybe we don't count 'cos we're in L1? Who knows? Perhaps Markus doesn't really exist and it's all a dream.

Todays article on the Beeb is pretty interesting - kinda explains what's going on in clear terms. Also features this very intriguing observation: ...you could argue it was Redknapp's policy of signing players of such quality as Crouch, Defoe, Krancjar and co - plus Gaydamak and Storrie's willingness to pay them top-whack wages - that got Portsmouth into this mess... full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mattslater/2009/10/a_decade_or_so_ago.html

I wish I had said this in the first place. Instead of mentioning windows n stuff, ah, faux pas.

I like the ol' "scraf around the wrist" look and rock it myself. I also know that it makes me look like I'm up for 'some bother' when I'm not - I just like the look, maan. Worse still I do understand that it can make some people want to punch me just for doing it! worst violence i experienced myself was being hit on the shoulder by a half brick on the way into the game, thrown by a visting skate thug, at my first ever derby game at the dell. I was only nine years old. hmmm, nice, not-so-glamourous-violence. I s'pose now that the youth of our nation are once again the largest sector of the unemployed and prospects of security and work are bleak, violence will be close at hand in any large gathering of disaffected disenfranchised young men. expect footy violence to get worse before it gets better...

buzz aldrin shot the 'giant leap' from the Eagle lunar landing module - out the window. then they set up a camera on a tripod. they did have remote control devices as well, by the way, not sure if they were used to trigger cams though. no cameras outside on the eagle, although other space traversing craft did (including the earlier lunar obitors from the apollo programme) - they were protected much like the astronauts visors were/are. hope this helps answer those particular questions. I have no further comment on Coppell as DoF. I'd be happy to see him in that role, but agree with Cortese to judge that although it is important in the long run, it is not vital right now. Get the basics sorted first with a good coaching team and progress to more sophisticated set up when ready... ...softly softly catchy monkey, as they say.

Read all the arguments on here and agree with all of the positives about SMS in principle. Doesn't change the fact that, to me personally, it is one of the least enjoyable football grounds I have ever been a spectator at (in the UK at least). Mainly down to the soulless nature of the construction, layout, design and décor. Which allows sh!thead supposed Saints fans to intimidate and cagoule their fellow fans. NO positivity emanates from what is - essentially - an already scabbing, rusting shell. I - for one - would rather we still had the Dell and lower capacity. FFS - I even see picturs of Craven Cottage and NotArf Krap (!) and think - "ooh a REAL stadium". They might be small with "inadequate toilet facilities" but the are proper venues for Football. Guess I'm just old-school and into aesthetics more than the average football fan (!?!) but I am not wowed by St.Marys, despite it's advantage of a 'larger gate'.

Just wasted my five minute break trawling through this fred; no insight just loads of daft puns. Thanks a lot, you bunch of nits. oh bugger

YES. From day one. The Primary Reason I no longer go. SMS has a horrible AtmosFear (see what I did there). 'Tis Ruled by The Yoof and The Stewarts. Hate it. Next question.

Certainly is. Would work out at 24 points for the season. (a grand total of 14 points with the deduction) Of course, that really isn't (pray god) gonna happen. Long way to go yet. But not looking too pretty right now I'll grant yer. IF (capitalised IF) we win the next two games that would average at 36 points (26) still relegated. If we achieve the fabled 'three wins in a row' and win the next three league games? (11 points from 7 games) then the average looks pretty decent: 75pts (65) surely a playoff push (?) So, a bit early to talk about our form methinks.

I disagree. (ohh, Trotts out - DECLARED 373-9) sorry, I digress. Now I disagree. Pards has had to build late, once the season has started, the whole team needs a bit more time. And - as an armchair fan - we are sounding A LOT BETTER than last year. 44 games to go...

Not a very nice analogy mUrph... ...but so so apt.

hurrumpf! Hey, we are still building the team I guess. lots of new faces to gel. et-bloody-cetera. Back to Test Match Special as they are currently discussing Lady and The Tramp. Obviously.